This beautifully illustrated book takes readers on a guided tour of a single day in an upper-crust English home of the Edwardian era. Starting with the servants hard at wo...
- 120 книг
Аббатство Даунтон / Downton Abbey
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СашаАббатство Даунтон / Downton Abbey
A welcome return to a writer whose last book, the much loved and admired Girl With a Pearl Earring has been such an outstanding success. 1901, the year of the Queen's deat...
This splendid survey of the English country house reveals a heritage that is rich beyond measure. Proceeding through the houses room by room, this picture-filled volume vi...
Last year, the telly-watching public was gripped by "Downton Abbey" - the most successful British period drama in years and the number - one most-watched new drama program...
British army officer on the Western Front during WW1 recalls his youth as a rural gentry lad interested only in horses, cricket matches and fox-hunting. A delightful tale ...
"The Mitford girls were probably the most spectacular sister act of the twentieth century."—Vogue
This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent...
Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thrill of the hunt -- until the game turned up human and quite dead. He lay ...
One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a ...
Remember the Titanic 100 years after its doomed voyage with Tricia Goyer’s fictional portrayal of one woman’s journey. To Amelia Gladstone, this ship means promise of seei...
Edgar Award-winning author Laurie R. King again proves her flair fortantalizing mystery in this first novel of an acclaimed series. Long sinceretired from his observations...
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Polly Perkins can hardly believe her luck when she is taken on as under-housemaid at Swallowcliffe Hall. At first it's all she can do to keep up, with endless f...
An absorbing novel about twelve-year-old orphaned Christina who is sent to live with her fierce uncle and his two sons in their decaying mansion, Flambards. Christina disc...
The First Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722) was a soldier of such genius that a lavish palace,
Blenheim, was built to honor his triumphs. Succeeding generations of Churchi...
A new edition of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan's memoir—the story of the "real" Lady Grantham of Downton Abbey
Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful, and h...
After the Russian Revolution turns her world topsy-turvy, Anna, a young Russian countess, has no choice but to flee to England. penniless, Anna hides her aristocratic back...
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
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(0)On a November day in 1895, crowds of curious sightseers gathered outside St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in New York, intent on spotting a small dapper bridegroom whom t...
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest ...
Whole armies of butlers, cooks and housemaids were employed in the great households of Victorian and Edwardian England. This book is a nostalgic study of this vanished wor...
Christina Hardyment conducted a fascinating quest into the history of housekeeping through the well-preserved properties of Britain's National Trust, among them Petworth, ...
